I recently discovered that none other than Syd Mead used to work at Volvo Trucks as a consultant, I managed to see some of his sketches and designs from the 70/80's and although a few decades old they would not look out of place in Blade Runner!!
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I was playing around with a model from the 3D warehouse but things got a bit out of hand. Almost 20 hours later…
I based some of the design elements on some original sketches I have by Ron Cobb so some aspects differ from the movie version. I know it’s the wrong license plate too but ive always liked this one better than the later version.

The whole thing was drawn again in Illustrator and Photoshop with my tablet. If you are wondering about the style its based on the fantastic work of “Neon Rising” by Josan Gonzalez’s that I bought last year. You can read the first chapter for free here https://ixcitadel.com/products/the-future-is-now_neon-rising

No it’s a mix of SketchUp and Photoshop. I made a sketch in Photoshop of how the character would be posed and then imported it into illustrator as a flat jpg to draw the actual character on top in Vector, then it all goes back into Photoshop.

Everybody knows how much I love space and I was lucky enough for my last project of 2018 to design the paint scheme for a special ‘Space Edition’ Volvo truck (with the help of my colleagues).

Volvo is celebrating 10 years in Kaluga the home of Sputnik and one of the birthplaces of spacetravel so I thought it was fitting to have it on the side!

Originally the design was a 3D model I had built in SketchUp and rendered in Keyshot with a mirrored finish like the real Sputnik, however it was not really working so I went back to using SketchUp and line art. In the end I remade the whole thing again in Illustrator but all based on the original SketchUp key art.